ZTE Corporation announced that it has taken the lead in validating 5G carrier aggregation on 700 MHz and 4.9 GHz frequency bands in Shenzhen, China.

Rohde & Schwarz and ZTE have completed the verification of a 1 Gbps LTE-Advanced modem including 2CC 4x4 MIMO and 1CC 2x2 MIMO/256QAM downlink carrier aggregation.

Anritsu Corp.has released its new LTE-Advanced Carrier Aggregation (CA) 4CC measurement software for the MT8821C Radio Communication Analyzer, together with multiple new LTE-Advanced capabilities.

Orange and Ericsson have successfully used the 3.4-3.6 GHz (3.5 GHz) frequencies for testing data speeds, coverage and FDD carrier aggregation.

Anite has achieved peak data rate throughput of 300 Mbps with 40 MHz bandwidth using three Component Carrier Aggregation.

Ericsson successfully supported Telstra in further enhancing its LTE Advanced (LTE-A) commercial service network as the two companies successfully demonstrated 300 Mbps downlink speeds for data transfer across Telstra's live network.

Rohde & Schwarz and HiSilicon have successfully implemented the requirements for device category 6 in compliance with 3GPP Release 10 for LTE-Advanced.

Rohde & Schwarz has enhanced its R&S CMW500 wideband radio communication tester with new options for RF tests and end-to-end testing of LTE-Advanced carrier aggregation.

A leading American mobile operator has implemented Anite test scripts for the qualification of LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) devices in its rigorous acceptance programme.

Anite has achieved validation for the most number of LTE-Advanced Carrier Aggregation protocol test cases by the PTCRB (a wireless device certification forum led by North American mobile operators).